Comments on: DJ Poll: Vinyl or Digital? http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/ A Place For Fiends Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: DJ Nik Gnashers http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-394 DJ Nik Gnashers Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:39:57 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-394 Indie & Oldskool Rave DJ's will always play vinyl because they understand that no form of digital recording can or ever will be able to reproduce true sine waves (which is what real guitars and most analogue synth basslines are). All these digital DJ's are shooting themselves in the foot, because the more digital mixing gets established, the nearer we are to clubs just programming the whole nights music and using a computer to auto-mix it 'live', then there will be no such thing as a 'real' DJ ! Indie & Oldskool Rave DJ’s will always play vinyl because they understand that no form of digital recording can or ever will be able to reproduce true sine waves (which is what real guitars and most analogue synth basslines are).
All these digital DJ’s are shooting themselves in the foot, because the more digital mixing gets established, the nearer we are to clubs just programming the whole nights music and using a computer to auto-mix it ‘live’, then there will be no such thing as a ‘real’ DJ !

]]> By: mixmasterj http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-342 mixmasterj Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:28:28 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-342 oh yeah and i like the warm fuzzy sound that you only get on vinyl. peace. oh yeah and i like the warm fuzzy sound that you only get on vinyl. peace.

]]> By: mixmasterj http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-341 mixmasterj Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:26:22 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-341 every tune i mix or play is on vinyl. thers summat exclusive about it. we can put anything in digital format music, photos, videos, etc. but vinyl is meant for one thing only and thats music worth the effort of pressing. im not slating mp3 or cd djs out ther. just for me its vinyl till i die. every tune i mix or play is on vinyl. thers summat exclusive about it. we can put anything in digital format music, photos, videos, etc. but vinyl is meant for one thing only and thats music worth the effort of pressing. im not slating mp3 or cd djs out ther. just for me its vinyl till i die.

]]> By: futurana http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-263 futurana Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:03:09 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-263 For me, good music is the most important thing. When I go to see a dj play, I really don´t care about the format, I prefer to enjoy what I´m listening. When I´m djing, I use both vinyl and cds. I have lots of digital music, wich I like to play fresh. The best tracks i play, the ones that I really really like and I find really good and timeless, I buy on vinyl. I don´t care about money or time or effort. I love wasting my time looking for a hard to find vinyl. I love visiting record shops when travelling. And I love my vinyl collection. It´s about filtering all the music in my computer and select just the cream, and give a track the importance it deserves. But, at the end of the day, what i flip with is a good song. Good music... ooooooh yeeeeeeaaahhhhhhh.... any format. For me, good music is the most important thing. When I go to see a dj play, I really don´t care about the format, I prefer to enjoy what I´m listening. When I´m djing, I use both vinyl and cds. I have lots of digital music, wich I like to play fresh. The best tracks i play, the ones that I really really like and I find really good and timeless, I buy on vinyl. I don´t care about money or time or effort. I love wasting my time looking for a hard to find vinyl. I love visiting record shops when travelling. And I love my vinyl collection. It´s about filtering all the music in my computer and select just the cream, and give a track the importance it deserves. But, at the end of the day, what i flip with is a good song. Good music… ooooooh yeeeeeeaaahhhhhhh…. any format.

]]> By: vinyl blight http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-262 vinyl blight Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:33:45 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-262 not to imply any holier than thou bullshit, but i stopped buying and supporting vinyl because of how horrible it is for the environment. http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/footer/search?q=PVC though i do use serrato. i think buying 2 pvc plates is better than 5,000. someday we'll phase that out and use something better. (awaiting consumer demand for the greener dj.) and of course, vermin st will be an all digital media label. not to imply any holier than thou bullshit, but i stopped buying and supporting vinyl because of how horrible it is for the environment.
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/footer/search?q=PVC
though i do use serrato. i think buying 2 pvc plates is better than 5,000. someday we’ll phase that out and use something better. (awaiting consumer demand for the greener dj.)
and of course, vermin st will be an all digital media label.

]]> By: SdC http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-261 SdC Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:57:47 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-261 Mr Mashit, I was just kidding ;) By the way posted the link on FB and they are interesting reactions Hope they came here to vote.. Mr Mashit,
I was just kidding ;) By the way posted the link on FB and they are interesting reactions
Hope they came here to vote..

]]> By: Daniel KLOSELINE http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-260 Daniel KLOSELINE Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:50:30 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-260 i also run over the mp3 name problem, ove the years i figured some nice ways out. ive created .txt files for the different gernes i play. these tetfiles include are seperated into subgernes as i have a dubstep text file. i put subgenre wobble, dark, reggae crazy, grimey etc in it, so i kow which tunes to drop to get into a sepcial direction. all tunes i like in any kind of way are in this subgenres with artist name and track name, more than this i put special infos on the end of it like, known from some mix or nice guitar sound or sthg like this. this works very well for all types of music i mix. about the way kis grow, i started playing with a hercules dj console and traktor and switched to real turntables and a real mixer then to have the right vinyl feeling etc.... i also run over the mp3 name problem, ove the years i figured some nice ways out. ive created .txt files for the different gernes i play. these tetfiles include are seperated into subgernes as i have a dubstep text file. i put subgenre wobble, dark, reggae crazy, grimey etc in it, so i kow which tunes to drop to get into a sepcial direction. all tunes i like in any kind of way are in this subgenres with artist name and track name, more than this i put special infos on the end of it like, known from some mix or nice guitar sound or sthg like this. this works very well for all types of music i mix.
about the way kis grow, i started playing with a hercules dj console and traktor and switched to real turntables and a real mixer then to have the right vinyl feeling etc….

]]> By: DJ C http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-264 DJ C Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:08:37 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-264 Kumar makes a good point about the look of the records labels/sleeves, and the feel of slapping down a 7-inch on the platter having a visceral effect. I also had a hard time getting used to scrolling through lists of meta-data rather than flipping through a crate to find "that one with the blue jacket." But like Cutups mentions, kids coming up didn't start DJing during an era in which turntables were the best option. They've grown up playing with computers and I'm sure they'll be amazing at DJing without turntables. For that matter, I wouldn't be surprised if <a href="http://riddimmethod.net/?p=149" rel="nofollow">computers get pretty good at DJing without people</a> before too long. In the meantime, it'd be nice to see some better searching features built into programs like Serato. Apple's <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/jukebox/coverflow.html" rel="nofollow">Cover Flow</a> feature in iTunes for example would be a great addition to DJ software. Shit! What if Apple finally included pitch-bending and cross-fading into iTunes? Kumar makes a good point about the look of the records labels/sleeves, and the feel of slapping down a 7-inch on the platter having a visceral effect. I also had a hard time getting used to scrolling through lists of meta-data rather than flipping through a crate to find “that one with the blue jacket.”

But like Cutups mentions, kids coming up didn’t start DJing during an era in which turntables were the best option. They’ve grown up playing with computers and I’m sure they’ll be amazing at DJing without turntables. For that matter, I wouldn’t be surprised if computers get pretty good at DJing without people before too long.

In the meantime, it’d be nice to see some better searching features built into programs like Serato. Apple’s Cover Flow feature in iTunes for example would be a great addition to DJ software. Shit! What if Apple finally included pitch-bending and cross-fading into iTunes?

]]> By: ripley http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-259 ripley Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:35:17 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-259 you know my steez. and I'm interested, because I like to know what other people who dj are doing. It may or may not affect the audience experience. But I think I dj differently because I spin with mp3s. C, did I tell you the article I wrote on this issue came out? check here: http://wiretapmag.org/arts/43298/ you know my steez. and I’m interested, because I like to know what other people who dj are doing. It may or may not affect the audience experience. But I think I dj differently because I spin with mp3s.

C, did I tell you the article I wrote on this issue came out? check here: http://wiretapmag.org/arts/43298/

]]> By: Kumar McMillan http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-253 Kumar McMillan Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:28:38 +0000 http://www.mashit.com/2007/11/27/dj-poll-vinyl-or-digital/#comment-253 At the end of the day I'm with the other folks here: it's all just music, damn it! But for me personally I tried to go digital and found it hard to mentally keep track of what music I had. Maybe I am going senial in my late 20s but I switched back to vinyl and found it much easier to find what I am looking for. It could also be the volume I work with. I have around 3,000 records, 600 of which 45s, and aside from 45s they are alphabetized in small groups loosely by genre. I know it sounds backwards but this seems easier for me to sort through then having that many mp3s on a computer. One theory I have is that my memory functions probably rely on visual imagery to pinpoint where something is. If I don't remember the name I often can conjure up the record cover and that gets me at least to the "genre" area in my shelves. Oh, I also like the feeling of throwing a 45 on a bubble adapter while mixing :) At the end of the day I’m with the other folks here: it’s all just music, damn it! But for me personally I tried to go digital and found it hard to mentally keep track of what music I had. Maybe I am going senial in my late 20s but I switched back to vinyl and found it much easier to find what I am looking for. It could also be the volume I work with. I have around 3,000 records, 600 of which 45s, and aside from 45s they are alphabetized in small groups loosely by genre.

I know it sounds backwards but this seems easier for me to sort through then having that many mp3s on a computer. One theory I have is that my memory functions probably rely on visual imagery to pinpoint where something is. If I don’t remember the name I often can conjure up the record cover and that gets me at least to the “genre” area in my shelves.

Oh, I also like the feeling of throwing a 45 on a bubble adapter while mixing :)

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